Carriage-curtain fastening



(No Model!) I Y I J. G. ENGLISH.

CARRIAGE CURTAIN PASTRNING.

No. 337,140. PatentedMam.l v2, 188thV 'm 'fl/1111111111. un

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CARRIAGE-CURTAIN FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 337,140, dated March 2, 1886.

Application tiled November lf` 1885. Serial No.1rl918. (No model.) l

To all whom it may concern:

vBe it known that I, JAMES G. ENGLISH, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new lmprovement in Carriage- Curtain Fastenings, and l do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings, and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent,

Figure l, an outside view of a portion of the curtain surrounding one of the buttonholes with the button therein; Fig. 2, an outside view of the same detached from the button; Fig. 3, an outside view of the stay piece, showing the bushing applied Figs. 4 and 5, the two parts of the bushing; Fig. 6, a vertical central section of the staypiece, showing the bushing fixed therein enlarged; Fig. 7, a vertical central section of the curtain at one of the button-holes, showing the stay-piece and bushing as applied on the same scale as Fig. 6.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of curtain-fastenings for carriages in which a turn-button is applied to the stationary part, adapted to pass through the elongated opening in the curtain in one position and then be turned transversely across the opening, and so as to secure the curtain, and from which it is released by turningthebutton into line with the opening, a class of fastenings common and well known. In the more general construction of this class of fastenings the opening through the curtain is provided with a metal collar upon the outside, which overlaps the curtain around the opening, and upon which the turn-button bears. This collar is necessarily of considerable extent, in order to protect the surface ofthe curtain from the wear of the button and provide suitable means for attaching the collar, and because of its great extent Ldetracts materially from the finished appearance which it is desirable to give to the carriage, such outside metal collar being a blemish upon the carriage. Again, as theoutside collar so applied is riveted to a collar upon the inside, the two embracing the curtain, and the portion of the curtain within the collar-opening cutaway, such cutting away is very difficult to do in a finished and workman-- like manner. and the opening presents a rough and unfinished appearance.

The object of my invention is to overcome these difficulties and provide abushing whichl may completely line the opening through the curtain, so as to give a metal surface entirely around lthe opening and yet avoid the large exposed collar upon the outside; and my invention consists of a stay-piece combined with a bushing composed of a tubular collar with a laterally-projecting flange around it, the said tubular portion of the bushing set through an opening in the stay-piece to bring the flange upon Vone surface where the tubular portion projects from the opposite surface, the bushing being secured to the stay-piece and adapted to be introduced upon the inside of a carriagecurtain, as more fully hereinafter described.

The bushing for the opening consists of a tubular collar, a, adapted to extend through t-he opening in the curtain, and in shape corresponding to the required opening. Upon the inner end of this collar alaterally-projecting annular flange, b, is formed, and, as seen in Fig. 4, in connection with this is a dat collard, (see Fig. 5,) its opening corresponding to the exterior of the collar a, and so as to set over it and stand in a plane parallel with the ange b. The bushing is applied to a staypiece of leather or other suitable material adapted to be introduced between the outer thickness of the curtain and the lining. Through the stay-piece an opening is made corresponding to the exterior of the collar a, and the collar is introduced through the opening to bring the flange b upon one surface of the stay-piece, as seen in Fig. 6. Then the collar d is placed upon the other side'around the bushing, and the two are riveted together, as seen in Fig. 6. The bushing or collaraeX- tends beyond the collar d a little greater than the thickness of the outer part of the curtain. This completes the article ready for market, and it is generally furnished to carriage-manufacturers in this condition. In applying itto the curtain the opening is cut through the outer thickness, B, and the stay-piece A applied upon the inside, and so that the bushing a will come at least flush with the outer surface of the thickness B, but preferably to project a little beyond. Then upon the inside the IIO lining C is applied, having a corresponding opening made through it.

stitches is run around the bushing, taking through the outer thickness the stay-piece A 5 and the lining C, as indicated at e, Fig. 7, and

also as seen in Fig. 1.

The projecting edge of the bushing a shows l only the thickness of the metal around the opening, and yet gives a metal bearing for the button. The bushing lines the opening, so that the roughness existing in the previous construction is avoided, and the outer collar heretofore used is also avoided.

The bushing maybe madein parts separate, to be applied by the manufacturer, but I prefer and in general practice do fixthe'bushing 1n the stay-piece ready for application to the curtain, and in this condition it is placed in the market.

The stay-piece may be continuous from hole t-o hole, but I prefer to make a single staypiece for each particular hole.

I claiml. As an article of manufacture the herein- 23 described bushing for carriage-curtains, con- Then a line ofsisting of the stay-piece, the bushing composed of the tubular collar a, with a laterally-projecting flange around it, the said tubular portion set through an opening in the stay-piece to bring the flange b upon one surface, com- 3o bined with a corresponding colla-r, d, set over the tubular portion upon the opposite side of said stay-piece and secured through the staypiece to the Harige b, substantially as described. 2. The herein described improvement in carriage-curtain fastenings, consisting in a tubular bushing corresponding in'shape to the hole required, and fixed to a stay-piece, the outer thickness of the curtain having a hole made therein corresponding to the said tubular bushing, the said stay-piece applied upon the inside of the curtain,with the tubular bushing extending through thesaid hole in the curtain, the curtain and stay-piece stitched together around the bushing, substantially as described.

JAMES G. ENGLISH.

Vvitnesses:

FRANK J. LINsLEY, JOHN MACKAY. 

